<body><h1>The Blood Type Connection</h1><p>BY NOW YOU ARE AWARE OF THE STRONG LINK BE- tween your blood typeand your health. I hope you are also beginning to see that you can exert meaningfulcontrol, even when you have a susceptibility to a certain condition. Your Blood TypePlan is the cornerstone to a lifetime of health.In the next three chapters, we will talk in more detail about the specific medicalissues that concern everyone, and how you can use your blood type information tomake the best choices for your health. We begin with the drugs and treatments that arecommonplace in modern life.Drugs have been used as medicine for thousands of years. When a shaman or witchdoctor brewed a potion, that potion had not only medical authority, but spiritualpower. Although the infusion was often malodorous and vile, it contained magic, andthe patient would gladly drink the bitter brew in hope of a cure.Not that much has changed.Today physicians overprescribe medications, and we overuse them. It’s a seriousproblem. Yet unlike other naturopaths who reject the entire modern pharmacopoeia, Ibelieve we must take a more reasoned and flexible point of view. Most medicalpreparations are designed to be effective on a broad range of the population, andshould be used to treat the most severe and potentially dangerous conditions.But let us also keep medication in perspective: All drugs are poisons. The gooddrugs that man has discovered over the centuries are selective poisons. Many othersare broader, less selective poisons. An excellent example of the latter is the diffusearsenal of drugs used by oncologists for chemotherapy. In the process of destroyingcancerous cells, many of these drugs indiscriminately attack healthy cells as well. (Itis not my intention to vilify oncologists. This is just the state of the art.)The good news is that chemotherapy sometimes works. The bad news is thatsometimes chemotherapy works, but the patient dies of complications related to thetreatment. It’s a terrible conundrum.Modern science has presented the medical community with a bewildering array ofmedications, and all of them are being prescribed by well-meaning physiciansworldwide. But have we been careful enough in our use of antibiotics and vaccines?How do you know which medications are best for you, for your family, for your</p></body>
